YellowDragon

ugh Ive had that happen multiple times, hell even had cops come to my door and then have to explain to them that the customers I typically have are so damn ignorant they cant read system requirements properly and there is no magical way to upgrade a PC for free. It gets old real fast when all customers want to do is shove their know it all attitude towards me only for me to throw it back saying "well if your the expert then tell me whats wrong", that's the only thing that shuts them up.

Apparently Mustard makes some decent TIM XD. Wonder if the brand makes a difference, I bet Heinz has the best Mustard TIM.

Well sorry to dissapoint you but a $10 fan from wallmart can move far more CFM then those Dyson fans ever could. They are made for the Apple generation, overpaying out the nose for something that only performs half as well as it should but looks good. look at the cross sections of the design, its a scam they moved the fan to the base and funneled it up to the open ring, might as well buy a leaf blower as they operate under the same concept, also the leaf blower is cheaper.

Exactly, the only reason the boutique cables exist is because some business person said "hmm how can we play off the ignorance and stupidity of consumers?" 

you dont need to "be good at math" you need to "be good at applying logic"

To that extent wouldn't you say you need a refinery infrastructure for processing oil into gas for the combustion engine? I like electric cars as they make sense from a PoF perspective. Less parts and complexity = less that can go wrong. Computers are pretty robust and can run for years without issue ( assuming software is decent), electricity is also far easier to produce then processing oil

As if the US government didn't run poorly enough as it is.

Seems lately the idea of gaming routers has been:
 
​IT HAZ MOAR ANTENNAS = MOOOAR POWWWWEER 

Seems lately the idea of gaming routers has been:
 
​IT HAZ MOAR ANTENNAS = MOOOAR POWWWWEER 

not going to cut it, you can easily spoof a MAC address, for instance you can also clear the routing table from routers, and leave your wireless open..........you could punch holes in this all day

Lets be honest, they are no longer classified as potholes in PA, they are classified as HTC (Holes to China).

I got a Titan X, I have my win 10 copy reserved
 

But the NSA watches over all of my shit I do as an individual because among 318 million people I'm important and stuff! Come at me bros

Its been posted a lot
and its a GOOD THING
SINCE 75%+ HOME USERS DON"T INSTALL UPDATES EVER, then complain shit doesn't work
 
 
 
SO ITS A SMART MOVE on Ms's part.
Tech Savy people buy WIndows 10pro anyway. 
 
 
 
KEEP IN MIND YOU STILL PICK WHAT TIME IT RESTARTS, it WILL INSTALL but you choose when...Just like it currently is........

I must be one of the weird ones that only plays Halo for the story........I could care less about multiplayer.
 
I honestly think 343 has done a good job with the series..... I have read all the books, graphic novels, etc and it all ties in pretty well.
 
That being said im buying an Xbone for Halo 5

I must be one of the weird ones that only plays Halo for the story........I could care less about multiplayer.
 
I honestly think 343 has done a good job with the series..... I have read all the books, graphic novels, etc and it all ties in pretty well.
 
That being said im buying an Xbone for Halo 5

What you are proposing is impossible for a person in your position.....notice I said in your position, even if you had all the resources, startup cash and talent it would still be improbable.
 
 
1. your basis on using PhP and Windows app development is incorrect. I'm assuming you have no experience with client server architecture, and if you were focused on a Microsoft stack you would be using ASP.net for both your client and website. If you don't know the technologies involved then you can't even get an effective team together.
 
2. There are legal ramifications for store fronts, you would need a lawyer every step of the way to make sure that you are operating your business within the bounds of the law
 
3. For stuff like a storefront you need the whole software suite of software architects, Programmers and QA, it needs to be secure for handing data transactions.
 
4. Software is expensive....I'm going to be blunt and its going to hurt, programmers and software engineers are paid top dollar in today's industry because there are simply not enough of them and the barrier to entry is a learning curve that dwarfs mount Everest. What if i told you that even the smallest app for a company is on the magnitude of $5,000+ to create it as the manhours in designing and programming it are that much. one programmer with a salary of $50,000 a year would be $26.00/hr, a small company app would run you about a month or $4166, now lets be real 50k is actually really low for alot of programmers when the average as of 2013 was $80,930. Even a small team of developers (5 people) costs $$$$$$$$$$$. With this in mind no one in there right mind does software for free.

One technical question though:
 
Why do you want windows technologies, but use PHP? If you decide to develope on Windows (C#, C++ or whatever) isn't much more easier to use ASP.NET for the website?

Hmm, this is naming number 3, first it was Zune Music, then Xbox Music, now Groove Music. I think they should stick to one name.

Hmm, this is naming number 3, first it was Zune Music, then Xbox Music, now Groove Music. I think they should stick to one name.

Hmm, this is naming number 3, first it was Zune Music, then Xbox Music, now Groove Music. I think they should stick to one name.

Hmm, this is naming number 3, first it was Zune Music, then Xbox Music, now Groove Music. I think they should stick to one name.

*sigh* why can't I freeze time.......I have to add this to the Stack of "awesome stuff I would love to toy around with but dont have time for"

*sigh* why can't I freeze time.......I have to add this to the Stack of "awesome stuff I would love to toy around with but dont have time for"

So everyone has been hyped up about the new X99 Haswell platform that is due for release soon, everyone wants an 8 Core desktop from Intel and everyone is waiting. So I thought i would take the time to take a trip down memory lane and share an older platform that went under the codename "Skulltrail". The platform was originally launched in 2008 and  was slated towards the ultra-enthusiast and the goal of this platform was simple, bring multi socket desktop mainboards to consumers.  Intel launched the Skulltrail platform on Feburary 19,2008 the main selling point of the Skulltrail  platform was  its  ability to bring  an 8  core CPU platform to enthusiasts and blend it together with more commercial features  such as ECC Ram support and the ability to do 4 way Crossfire or SLI  (which  there were only one or two boards on the  market  capable of doing this). The standard spec of the Skulltrail  platform consisted of 2 Core 2 Extreme QX 9775, these processors are commonly confused with  the QX 9770 processors  that appeared on the LGA 775 platform, however these chips were specially made for the  Skulltrail platform, Today it is a dream to  run  two extreme editions on one board, the  Skulltrail  platform allowed two Core 2 Duo Chips with  unlocked  multipliers  work on the same  board much like Xeons.  This feature has  not been seen since in modern day platforms.

Above: A photo of a DX5400 Seaburg Chipset Skulltrail  platform
 
To put it simply Skulltrail leveled any other motherboard/ Cpu platform out there,  it  was an extreme outlier on  all  benchmark graphs,  however it had  an  Achilles heel the platform  made use of FB Dimms instead of DDR3 which  was just rolling off the  production line, this choice handicapped the Skulltrail platform as there was too little memory bandwidth at too slow a speed to compete with standard one socket desktop boards, couple this with the fact that there were almost no multi-threaded apps back then and you have  a  platform that only ever ran at  half its  overall potential. There was also  the problem of price. A brand new  Skulltrail platform  was stratospheric  in costs , Each CPU costed $1600, The motherboard which  was  a unique Intel only design would set you back another $600 and finally the Ram which was specialized server Ram  would  set you back another $200-300, You would have close to a $5000 computer without even touching the storage or graphics cards. Couple this with the blunder that it was mostly marketed towards gamers (ahem similar to Titan Z)  it became a really oddball  platform that was interested but  didn't fit anywhere in the  market.
 
Put simply the Skulltrail platform was  far,  far  ahead of its time and because of that the platform failed to appeal to a large market,only today are we seeing the benefit of 6+ cores in gaming and were are just starting to see 8  core chips  enter the consumer market.  Right now  software is still playing  catch-up  to  multi-core chips and  this was a  platform that hoped apps would be threaded properly, however that never  came  to  pass and  the  Skulltrail platform faded out  of  existence and  relevance. Intel has never revisited the Skulltrail concept and  likely never will in  the  consumer market.
 
 
 
Though today I  have something  special to  share with  you all, 3 weeks ago I  got a   call  from  one  of my friends that moved  out to California after highschool  and  got a  job in  IT. He was calling me about a Skulltrail platform that he  recently took out of service for a small marketing firm. He told me he was sent in to do a system replace for the firm and they were buying completely new systems from the ground up, he managed to salvage an entire Skulltrail platform from a server rack that was used as an emergency backup. Thats right  this high end enthusiast style platform was being  used as a backup server. When he questioned the owner about it he said the  previous  company that handled the first system install  told them they needed a high  end  system like Skulltrail  to handle 3-4 VMs in case of  an  emergency. Needless to say he was dumbfounded  and  so  was  I after I  heard the story. That previous  company must have been some  hella good marketers to sell  a  small  company an entirely overkill  platform for a back-up  machine.The  system was  rarely powered on  and the  CPUs were never overclocked  apparently. He offered  to sell me the kit for $350 as he had no use for it, I accepted  and he shipped it out.
 
I received  the package today and I  can honestly say I am  shocked, there  was no  dust to be  found on the  board, it honestly looked like  it was just taken out of the packaging. I originally wanted to build a  small server with the money that I  spent, however the kit was too good of a  price to pass up, since I had enough spare parts lying  around the kit seemed to be the right idea. I had some old Raptor hard drives from my very first PC build that still worked flawlessly, I also had a EVGA NEX Supernova 1500w PSU that was leftover from my Quadfire 7970 rig, then I had  a HAF X case and a HAF XB case lying around from swapping cases for clients and my  own  builds. So for  $350 I got  an  entirely  working dual  socket CPU platform...a  complete steal.
 
Now  to make  this a  bit unique I going  to try to cram the following specs into a HAF XB  Cube Case, I figure with some light modding I can get the board and all the parts to fit.
 
 
Motherboard: Intel  Skulltrail D5400XS
CPU: 2X  QX 9775 Core 2 Extreme 3.20Ghz
CPU Coolers: Dynatron 2U Socket 771 Coolers
RAM: 4x4Gb Micron DDR2  FB-Dimms ECC 667Mhz (16Gb Total)
PSU: EVGA NEX  SUPERNOVA 1500W
HDD: 2x 36GB WD Raptor 10k drives
GPU: Radeon HD 5770  MSI Hawk Edition
OS: Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter
 
CASE: Cooler  Master HAF XB
 
Heres some Starter pics:
 
The board and all its glory:

 
 
A quick testbench to make sure everything works:

 
The Box that its all going in (hopefully):

 
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